You can find the tarball for this document, if interested, at: http://docs.frields.org/ I've formatted it as a DocBook XML book rather than an article since I felt the size and derivation warranted that treatment. I wrote a small, probably self-indulgent, and definitely unnecessary foreword, addressing the purpose of the book, and the changes that will be made. Note the foreword talks about them in the past tense, whereas I haven't actually started the content portion yet. I intend to change the content to include examples from real Linux documentation to make the book more on-point with the FDP. I'm considering possibly removing the minor personalization I've done, and "freezing" that copy for public distribution, also under the FDL, with a "pristine" text of the 1918 edition. This is only slightly complicated by the fact that before I came up with this idea, I made three or four very minor alterations in the text to correct outdated usage. Nevertheless, I can probably locate those portions and return them to their original state in a few hours of proofreading. I still have a sticky situation, though, which I have not been able to fully address, which is the treatment of the section numbering. I chose to assign the chapters roman numeral labels (I, II...) to match the original, and used <simplesect> sections so that I could manually number the rules as in the original text, with the numbering persisting across chapters, rather than mucking with awkward labeling like "III.2" caused by the chapter labels and the automatic formatting from (I assume) the various XSL and other widgets. (Don't shoot me please, I'm not a doc-tools expert, I just use 'em.) If anyone has comments, let me know, even if it's just to agree with the method I used. I tried to get the whole book as consistent as possible. At this point I've worked on it most of the day (and night) Friday and all day today, and have decided to take the day off tomorrow... at least until the bug hits again. Enjoy! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
